by CARLYLE B. HAYNES

0 E stand at a crisis. We are witnessing The curse still pervades the earth and poisons the close of a long series of experi- the air; men can not disinfect it. The thorn Wments made by man in an attempt to and thistle still remind us of the primal sin; improve and save himself. And man has men can not uproot them. Disease still haunts failed. the body ; man can not drive it out. Death The world is more wicked and more lawless still smites its daily myriads ; man tries in vain than ever. Peace has not set up her reign to disarm it. The grave still receives ourioved among the nations. Misrule has not departed. ones, and preys upon the beautiful ; and man Righteousness does not sit on the throne of pleads in vain that it should give back the joy the nations. Holiness does not beautify the of his heart and the desire of his eyes. homes of men. Man's merchandise is not con- Such are the fruits of Adam's sin, and such secrated to God. Man's wealth is not laid at the powerlessness of his children to remove so the feet of Jesus. The human heart remains much as one of the ten thousand evils. It is still deceitful above all things, and desperately demonstrated that man can ruin, but not re- wicked. Oppression, murder, cruelty, selfish- store, a world. He has made attempts at resto- ness, lust, strife, dissension, and hatred are ration, but has sadly and miserably failed. He still uneradicated, unsubdued, unmitigated. has made attempts at progress, but they have Man has found no cure for these maladies. been abortive. Progress in evil, progress in They rage on, and he is powerless. alienation from God,—these are the features of

VOL. 52, NO. 20 MAY 19, 1 9 2 5 • greatest prominence in his history. This great event marks the meeting Belief of. this great truth and the But this progress in evil has a limit. place of two eternities. It brings the cherishing of this lofty hope result in God has set bounds to it, beyond which crisis in the history of the planet and precious blessings to the believer. He will not allow men to pass. He will the race. It strikes the hour which Among these blessings, seven stand out not permit this earth of His to become bears the burden of immortal destinies. prominently. altogether a hell ; He will make the It closes up the present dispensation of It leads to an enlarged study of the wrath of man to praise Him, and the mercy to the world. It opens to our Word of God. Let the mind and heart remainder thereof He will restrain. view the scenes of glory which will en- become convinced of the Lord's return, (Psalm 76 : io.) He will allow a cer- dure throughout the ages of the ages. and at once the interest is aroused in tain amount of evil to exist, and for a The effect of this hope on those who all the subjects of the Bible. The certain time ; but no more. believe it is a good effect. It has a ten- writings of the prophets become of THE CROWNING HOPE special interest. Scripture is compared with scripture, and a flood of light is And it is well that we are nearing the poured upon the sacred page. Object boundaries. It is time the good dis- after object of interest is disclosed. placed the evil, and the blessing the Those portions of the Scriptures which curse. The second Adam is at hand, before excited no emotion now call and with Him, the kingdom and the forth the deepest feeling. glory. He brings the cure. He re- It draws away from the love of the bukes disease and sorrow. He binds world. We may have had our imagi- death: He rifles the grave. He de- nations captivated by the lovely things livers creation. He establishes a peace- about us. Our fond hearts may have ful, righteous throne. He brings in an been too deeply pledged to earthly joys. ever-widening knowledge, an ever- But when we learn that "the earth also brightening glory. The dishonored and the works that are therein shall be past will not be remembered nor come burned up," who, then, will continue into Mind. to seek after the world's wealth, its There are many wito love Jesus so silver, and its gold? Who will be much that they would like to see Him. "Behold, He cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see Him." "And covetous when he believes the Lord They are pleased at the thought of His the kings of the earth, and the Jesus is at hand, to destroy the worth- soon coming. They are 'designated 'as princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every less treasure of earth? Who will be those "that love His appearing." They bondman and freeman, hid them- self-indulgent when he expects the im- have in their hearts this crowning selves in the caves and in the rocks mediate return of his Lord? Who will of the mountains; and they say to hope. All their expectation of future the mountains and to the rocks, Fall be dazzled by the world's low ambition good hangs on this, and the very on us, and hide us from the face of and paltry splendor when he is seeking thought that He will soon come has its Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the speedy conferment of the crown effect upon them now.. the great day of Their wrath is of glory? There is that in the Sav- This effect could be nothing but come; and who is able to stand?" iour's speedy coming which dries up beneficial. It is a good hope; it must, the springs of worldliness, mortifies therefore, bring about good results. If the schemes of earthly ambition, makes they were looking for an evil thing, the joys of The world to pall on the and their minds were willingly and dency to cause people to become purer. senses, and leaves no glory here by constantly dwelling upon the evil, it Only holy men and women will be able reason of the glory that excels. could do nothing but bring about evil to stand in that day. And so "every It reproves timidity and want of results. But this hope is high and man that hath this hope in him puri- earnestness. Expecting to see the vials holy and noble. It must, therefore, fieth himself, even as He is pure." of wrath poured out on a godless bring. about corresponding results. i John 3 : 3. world, who will be afraid to confess their Lord? Who can continue cold or Indeed, there is no more mighty Paul wrote to Titus regarding the lukewarm when they expect soon to see motive for good that God has placed effect of this "blessed hope" on the be- the saints of God caught up to meet before the minds of His saints, both to liever's life, saying: "Teaching us their King? The sense of the near- impress their own hearts and to in- that, denying ungodliness and worldly ness of these awe-inspiring events fluence those about them, than this. It lusts, we should live soberly, right- steels the heart and nerves the hand. is preeminent in the power of its in- eously, and godly, in this present It elevates the mind, give. boldness to fluence. Next to the inward working world ; looking for that blessed hope, the heart, creates promptness in design, of God's Spirit, it is the controlling and the glorious appearing of the great produces firmness in action. It causes force in the system of divine revelation. God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; disregard of consequence, and makes a Nothing can be compared to it. who° gave Himself for us, that He man careful only to be found in that might redeem us from all iniquity, and THE MEETING PLACE OF TWO day a firm and consistent follower of ETERNITIES purify unto Himself a peculiar people, the Lord Jesus. zealous of good works." Titus 2 : It affects alike •the destinies of the It arouses one to the need of assur- living and the dead. For awful 12-14. ance. Who can rest in uncertainty as weight, solemn majesty, impressive in- It is in view of our Lord's return to his acceptance with God when he fluence, and awakening- power, not that Paul urges the need of brotherly believes the Lord will presently sep- even the shortness of life, the solem- love and unblamable holiness : "The arate the saints from the apostates, and nity of death, the fear of hell, or the Lord make you to increase and abound' destroy the sinners ? Such a consid- hope of glory can equal the great fact in love one toward another, and toward eration creates a profound desire for a that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the all men, even as we do toward you : to personal interest in Christ, an assur- crucified Saviour and glorified High the end He may stablish your hearts ance that we are His. It is impossible Priest, the humbled and exalted Re- unblamable in holiness before God, to desire the coming of our Lord unless deemer, will soon come again in the even our Father, at the coming of our we fully believe that God is reconciled, glory of His Father, to judge the Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints." perfectly reconciled to us. Thus the world. i Thessalonians 3: 12, 13. (Continued on page 12)

V o 1. 5 2 SIGNS of the TIMES, May 19, 1 9 2 5 N o. 2 0 Printed and published weekly by the Pacific Press Publishing Association, at Mountain View, California, U; S. A. Entered as second-class matter September 15, 1904, at the Mountain View, California, post office, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, and authorized September 18, 1918. Page Two Peter, who knew what it meant to have the darkness of sin in his own The soul even after he had companioned with the .Light for more than three IGHT Shining in years, wrote to his fellow Christians after his life was fully illuminated: "Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar BERTHA people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you UNRUH out of darkness into His marvelous ARKNESS light." I Peter 2 : 9. Paul, who, in his blinded zeal, un- wittingly furthered the cause of the HE Bible is a book of contrasts. cast his hellish shadow over the light kingdom of darkness, was one day If its theme could find expres-, that He revealed. Jesus exposed his halted in the way by "a light from T sion through the medium of the satanic schemes, in contrast with His heaven, above the brightness of the artist's brush, it would be a gripping own gracious mission. "The thief sun," and received his commission "to study in black and white. It deals with cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, open their [the gentiles'] eyes, and to two things, which stand in diametric and to destroy : I am come .,that they turn them from darkness to light, and opposition—light and darkness, life might have life, and that they might from the power of Satan unto God, and death. These two things are have it more abundantly." John that they may receive forgiveness of tragically interwoven in all human ex- to : to. "I am come a light into the sins." Acts 26 : 13, 18. And this perience. "In the midst of life, we are world, that whosoever believeth on Me mighty hero of the cross, as he forged in death." should not abide in darkness." John his way through the regions of dark- It was not always so. There was a 12 : 46. "He that followeth Me shall ness,' holding aloft the torch of truth, time when the whole universe was vib- not walk in darkness, but shall have the left a trail of heavenly light in his rant with life. But one fatal day the light of life." John 8: 12. path, which found its way into hut and change came. "Sin entered into the hall, into the peasant's cot and the world, and death by sin ; and so death One of His followers, the beloved disciple John, seems to have compre- palaces of royalty. passed upon all men, for that all have hended with more than ordinary clear- IN VIVID CONTRAST sinned." Romans 5 : 12. ness, the Master's mission of light. A dark picture indeed ! "All have Light and darkness have, ever since In the opening chapter of his Gospel, sinned." "The wages of sin is death." the entrance of sin, been used as sym- But, thank God, that is not all the pic- he says: "In Him was life; and the bols of good and evil, fruth and error. ture. When man sinned and darkness life was the light of men." "That was life and death. These 'are set in vivid the true Light, which lighteth every crept into his soul, he was not left a contrast all through the'Scriptures, that man that cometh into the world." helpless prey to that overwhelming we may make our choice. "See, I have John I : 4, 9. "This then is the mes- power; there was given the promise of set before thee this day life and good, sage which we have heard of Him, and One who would combat that darkness. and death and evil." Deuteronomy This was He who said of Himself, "I declare unto you, that God is light, and 3o : 15. "The wages of sin is death ; am the Light of the world." John in Him is no darkness at all." t John but the gift of God is eternal life I: 5. 8: 12. through Jesus Christ our Lord." Ro- And so there has been in the world, mans 6: 23. "God so loved the world, these many years, an intense conflict that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him between the powers of darkness and AA, ' the powers of light. It has seemed at should not perish, but have everlasting times as if the former would prevail, life." John 3: 16. Perhaps the con- as, for instance, in that period of trast was never more striking than earth's history significantly and fitly Our Sunsets upon that memorable day in Pilate's judgment hall when Jesus, the Prince termed the Dark Ages. But the light God gives us yet these sunsets. Gold-gilded has blazed forth with renewed strength Skies and wond'rous tinted clouds. Their of light, and Barabbas, a subject of and resplendence, the more glorious purple the kingdom o f darkness, a murderer Hues bespeak a glory far more grand than like his father the devil, stood together, and prominent for having been tem- Ever decked a monarch's throne, or ever porarily dimmed. Shone from garnished palace wall. Their and men were bidden to choose. beauty It is an individual choice. In every THE CONFLICT Freely given, bears to all mankind a Blessing from above. And while celestial human heart, there is a controversy When, after four thousand years of Gates swing wide, and mirror there the won- between Christ and Satan. Christ em- conflict between these two forces, the der ploys the power of His mighty love darkness waxed dense and deep, so Of the jasper walls, there comes to hearts bowed and the methods consistent therewith, that even the nation set as light bear- Down by care, and furrowed with life's while Satan's methods of warfare are ers in the world was almost totally ceaseless the very opposite,—murder, hatred, Toil, a vision of that wondrous home blinded by it, He, "the Light of the God doth prepare. To these no dark'ning envy, and all the fiendish arts of his world," came Himself to break the clouds evil mind. spell, and to illuminate, with His own O'ercast the scene. No quickly coming night "A cloud of doubt rolls round this smitten presence, the paths of men. It was Blots out the view. No interposing sound world, written by the prophet that He would Their rapture dims. For there they see To blind and stupefy a fallen race. come "to open the blind eyes, to bring God's love A thousand noxious dogmas issue forth, Shine forth—His love is always there. To And seeds of death are sown with lavish out the prisoners from the prison, and them them that sit in darkness out of the The. glory never dies. Immortal gleam hand." those prison house." Isaiah 42 : 7. And Everlasting walls,—that city fair, which This age, with all its boasted enlight- this He did, for "the people which sat Never fades away. And though the sunset enment, is one of spiritual darkness. in darkness saw great light; and to But a moment in the west remains, to Them it shines eternally, and ever It is the time of which the prophet them which sat in the region and Gleaming froin the azure skies, reveals God's wrote, "Darkness shall cover the earth, shadow of death light is sprung up." Great love, and bears His message to our and gross darkness the people." Isaiah hearts. Matthew 4: 16. 2. Men are twining from the H. Rolland Taylor. 60 : Relentlessly the prince of darkness Word of God, which is a lamp unto the dogged Christ's steps, endeavoring to (Continued on page 5) Page Three Letters from a converted infidel to his ag- nostic father.

EARLE A. ROWELL LETTER NUMBER ELEVEN ESTING Why Did Ancient Israel Destroy the Canaanites?

Y dear Father,— many centuries been in utter ruins. all civilized nations are trying to cope The facile pen of the graphic, ironic, While the ancient oracles are dumb, with this monster evil that fills insane sneering Gibbon records the decline the glowing words which Moses spoke asylums, hospitals, and graves with and fall of the Roman Empire : her in the wilderness are more living and ever-increasing numbers. proudest monuments of imperial glory powerful to-day than the day he de- But Moses knew what our most ad- are only shattered ruins, desolate livered them with smoking Sinai for a vanced physicians and sociologists are palaces. The glory and greatness of background. only just beginning to appreciate—the Rome have departed, living only in The Pharaohs issued their stern terrible dangers of sex debauchery, and memory and the sonorous periods of mandates, the Assyrian rulers their he saw that the severest punishment Gibbon. The proud palaces of the high decrees, the haughty kings of in the beginning would be needed to haughty Caesars lie desolate. The laws Babylon their commands to conquered prevent untold calamities later, and that Rome imposed on a conquered nations ; the Medes and Persians made would be the tenderest mercy. For world are buried in the dust that covers laws which change not ; Rome had her this reason God decreed the utter de- her ruins, and none are so poor as to iron-clad laws—but where are they all struction of the seven nations of do them reverence. The world power to-day ?—Buried in eternal forgetful- Canaan. And yet skeptics can not find of the iron kingdom is gone forever. ness, the dust of centuries covering language severe enough to describe the them. Antiquarians seek them in vain. wickedness of the children of Israel in But the Jewish nation, whose down- Occasionally some industrious archae- driving out the Canaanites ! fall was celebrated by the famous Arch ologist digs up a fragment of a law, of Titus and great processions and fes- "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" but there is no man so abject as to fear tivals, whose leader was slain, whose When Rome conquered by her might or obey it. But the laws of Mt. Sinai priesthood w a s destroyed, whose are to-day more widely known than decadent nations, and when Rome be- temple was razed to the ground, whose any other laws ever given by any law- came decadent by the very sins of which the Canaanites were guilty and children were sold as slaves and scat- giver, ancient or modern. tered to all parts of the earth to suffer was in turn conquered by the Goths exile, disgrace, poverty, scorn, age- ONE OF MY PRIME REASONS and Vandals, it is called "the survival long butchering—that nation still ex- While even skeptics generally admit of the fittest." When Israel conquered ists. And the strange thing about it is the excellence of the laws of Moses, the decadent nations of Canaan, it is that Moses, thirty-five centuries ago, they are quite agreed in attacking one called "a horrible crime." foretold the whole history of the Jews law, or command, of Moses. In your A careful reading of the Bible ac- even to the present day. How did Bible, there are many marginal nota- count will reveal a few rather sur- Moses know all this ? That he did is tions. Opposite the command to kill prising facts about this, much dis- proved by the fact that he actually the Canaanites, I remember reading cussed and generally misunderstood wrote it out. He had the temerity to your comment : "God, the butcherer." subject. God promised Abraham the say that the Lord told him these facts. This is the favorite ground of objec- land of Canaan ; then told him that his If he did not get this information from tion among skeptics, and they seem to children must sojourn in Egypt for the Lord, will you tell me where he consider it one of their strongest cases three hundred years, and that "in the did get it? for no skeptic has ever against the Bible. It may surprise you fourth generation they shall come attempted to deny the fact of the ful- to know that for many years it has hither again : for the iniquity of the fillment of Moses' prophecy concern- been one of the prime reasons why I Amorites is not yet full." Gen. 15 : 16. ing the Jews. believe the Bible. Just as long as any trace of virtue Under the law of Moses, crimes remained, the Canaanites were to be HOW DOES IT HAPPEN? against virtue and morality were spared. So, for three hundred years, How does it happen that the worship sternly dealt with ; for vicious indul- they were given an opportunity to Moses ordained has outlasted all other gences by individuals are often more change their course of living. When forms of worship of those days ? In deadly than murder in their effects they had so corrupted themselves and all Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Assyria, or upon individuals and society, some- even their animals that there was no Arabia we can not to-day find a soli- times blotting out of existence not only virtue among them, but great danger tary example of the idolatrous worship a whole family but even a whole race. of contaminating the rest of the human which then overspread the land. The Medical science is just beginning to race, mercy and justice demanded their temples where Phoenicians, Assyrians, understand the terrible horrors that extirmination. Read Leviticus, chap- Babylonians, Greeks, and Romans follow in the wake of vicious living, ter 18, for a description of the many worshiped their many gods of high threatening the foundations of the crimes of which they were guilty. In the low degree, have for, lo, these whole human race. Leading men of conclusion Moses writes : Page Four "Defile not ye yourselves in' any of the same manner as He used the Jews light above any earthly treasure, and these things: for in all these the na- to destroy the Canaanites. who seek earnestly to "walk in the tions are defiled which I cast out be- Thus there has entered into the Jew- light, as He is in the light." With fore you: and the land is defiled : there- ish national consciousness a fear of what intense interest has God ever fore, I do visit the iniquity thereof vice that has kept the Jewish race to- watched the hearts of men to see how upon it, and the land itself vomiteth day the freest from the sins for which they will receive His saving light ! "He out her inhabitants." Observe that it the Canaanites were destroyed of any looketh upon men, and if any say, I is their own iniquity, and that alone, nation on earth to-day. have sinned, and perverted that which that is responsible for their punish- Cordially, your loving son, was right, and it profited me not ; He ment. In conclusion, came the solemn EARLE. will deliver his soul from going into warning not to commit any of these the pit, and his life shall see the light." sins, "that the land spew not you out THE LIGHT SHINING IN Job 33 : 27, 28. also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out DARKNESS "Yet a little while is the light with the nations that were before you." The (Continued front page 3) • you. Walk while ye have the light, Lord has no favorites. The Israelites feet and a light unto the path, and lest darkness come upon you." John would just as quickly be destroyed as walking in the sparks of their own I2: 35. the Canaanites if they were guilty of kindling. the same sins. But the Light still shines. There are MOST of all, I wish the happiness of FORFEITED THE RIGHT TO LIVE now, as there have always been, those a contented spirit, the calm rapture of The Canaanites had forfeited the who "loved darkness rather than being able to accept life's crosses with- right to live. Incest and brutality, light because their deeds were evil. out bitterness and its crowns without every vile deed, were current. What For every one that doeth evil hateth vanity, greeting each new day with a must have been the condition of their the light, neither cometh to the cheer, believing in the Father's house society when the exceptional horror of light, lest his deeds should be dis- at the end of the road, and His reward- certain unmentionable crimes which covered." John 3 : 19, 20, margin. ing smile. This is the beatitude of the startle us to-day and are severely dealt And there are those who cherish the Christian.—George Clark Peck. with, was but the everyday level of their ordinary life? These crimes were not individual, but national. There were no laws against them. The government was equally corrupt, and their religion was based in the worship of lust and debauchery. The very land itself was corrupt under its inhabitants. The only remedy was to purge it com- pletely. God had given them their lives in trust, and they had violated that trust by becoming a curse instead of a blessing. . The only question at issue is whether God has the right of control over the Is Man Immortal? works of His hands. I have not yet found anyone who wants to maintain G. B.,TH O M P S O N that God has no rights over the beings He has created. It will readily be ANY believe that man is immor- have been saying so much about it ! tal. They have been taught it The Bible very plainly declares that granted that God can look into the M from childhood by the reli- man does not now possess inherent future and see that a hundred times as gious teachers of the day. So much is immortality. We are admonished to many human beings would be sacri- said about the immortal soul that one "seek for glory and honor and im- ficed by allowing the Canaanites to live would think the expression could be mortality." Romans 2: 7. Why seek found on almost every page of the for what we already are in possession as would be involved in their destruc- Bible. Many think it very soothing in of? This is nonsense. We are clearly tion. Then their destruction would the hour of death to think that the told that man is mortal (Job 4: 17), clearly be a mercy. loved one is not really dead ;' they and that God only has inherent im- forget that, if the dead are immortal mortality (i Timothy 6: 15, 16). Im- But why were the Israelites bidden and conscious in death, the majority mortality is an attribute of the Deity to destroy them ? Why not divine of the dead are wailing in an endless (I Timothy I : 17), and will never be judgments such as had overtaken hell, and will suffer the awful tor- given to those who refuse to accept of Sodom and the cities of the plain ? ments of the damned throughout all the precious boon of everlasting life. eternity. Poets have written about it, Immortality is the gift of God to the These cities were destroyed in this very and from our youth we have sung it. overcomers, and it will be bestowed plain, and yet the people of Canaan One favorite hymn reads: upon them at the resurrection of the just. In I Corinthians 15 : 51-54 we grew worse and worse. So the Israel- "A charge to keep I have, ites were chosen by God for two read : A God to glorify ; "Behold, I show you a mystery: We reasons: A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky." shall not all sleep, but we shall all be First, to put fear in other nations. changed, in a moment, in the twink- The nations would fear a live and in- Then the poet, seeming to forget ling of an eye, at the last trump : for vincible people more than a strange what he said in the first stanza, says the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in the second, shall be raised incorruptible, and we fire. Other nations would know the shall be changed. For this corruptible reason for the destruction, since the "If I my trust betray, must put on incorruption, and this Israelites knew and told others why I shall forever die." mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put they were the instruments of destruc- But we would like to ask how any- on incorruption, and this mortal shall tion. body knows that man is immortal. have put on immortality, then shall Second, to make clear to the Israel- The Bible does not say so. The be brought to pass the saying that is words "soul," "spirit," etc., occur written, Death is swallowed up in ites that,. if they were guilty of the more than seventeen hundred times victory." crimes for which the Canaanites were in the Bible, but not in a single in- Wonderfill indeed will be the be- being destroyed, they would them- stance are they said to be immortal. stowal of this precious gift to the selves be destroyed by some other na- Strange omission, indeed, when men overcomers ! tion. And the Lord used other nations to obliterate the decadent Romans in

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HEN I said something about BRIEF CONVERSATIONS "Yes, men are 'born in sin' because the devil to-day, Pastor Nash, a friend Adam and all their fathers have of mine, who heard me, said I ought to sinned." be ashamed of myself for believing in "But if God makes it possible for a a personal devil ; for all the devil there man to sin, and allows the devil to is, he said, is just the natural wicked- tempt him to sin, and he has a natural ness in a man's heart. It is rather inclination that way besides, how is he small, he thinks, to conjure up some to blame for sinning? And after all, mythical person on whom to blame our is it so bad if he does ?" meanness, by saying that we were "One at a time now, Mr. Brown. under strong temptation. He also God leaves it possible for a man to sin said that now we know that what is because, if He made him be good, man commonly called sin is not positive would be like a machine and not free; wrong,.but simply a weak step upward, but God does everything He can to imperfection striving toward perfec- induce man to do right. He allows the tion, a sort of undeveloped goodness, devil to tempt man to test his character so to speak. And he's a pretty good and make him strong to do right. No Christian." one with a flabby moral character is "There are a great many professedly This week the question is worthy of God's approval. Man would and seemingly good Christians to-day, about not be to blame for sinning if he had Mr. Brown, who are in reality denying only his own strength to resist temp- the very -principles that made them tation. But he is to blame, for God what they are. You agreed to take The has provided a way for him to over- what the Bible says about such things, come everything that is against him, didn't you ?" and do right. Man has reasons for "Yes, I did ; and I want to know sinning, but no excuse as long as this what it says about this." way of escape is provided. That is "All right ; it teaches that the devil DE VIL a subject that we will talk about later. existed before there was a man at all." Those men who say that sin is only a "But did a good God make the by mistake, an imperfection that is to be devil ?" taken as only a slip in the upward ROBERT BRUCE "Yes, but He did not make him a struggle of the soul, are excusing sin. devil. He gave him the free choice of THURBER Sin is not vague ; it is as real as the right or wrong; and he chose that devil, and much more evident." which made him what he is. We read Associate Editor, "Watchman Magazine" "There are so many opinions of in r John 3 : 8 : 'He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth what is right and wrong, Pastor ; I'd from the beginning' ; and Christ said to like to know just what sin is, then." the Jewish hypocrites: 'Ye are of your `thou bast said in thine heart, . . . I "I'm glad we have it very definitely father the devil, and the lusts of your will be like the Most High,' are the defined in the Bible. Read it in i John father ye will do. He was a murderer charges God brings against him in 3 4." from the beginning, and abode not in these scriptures I have referred to. He "It says that 'sin is the transgression the truth, because there is no truth in tempted a great many other angels to of the law.' " him. When he speaketh a lie, he rebel against God with him, and all "Exactly ; and that is the rule of life. speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, were cast to this earth. He used the We need not go to any man for a def- and the father of it.' John 8 : 44. serpent to tempt Eve and Adam in inition of right. The Ten Command- That's rather plain, isn't it ? So Jesus Eden ; and, in yielding, Adam gave ments are the sole gauge of human believed in a real devil, and He very over to Satan his own rights to this conduct. To keep them, is right and positively threw upon him the blame' world. Since then Satan is 'the prince brings life ; to break them, 'even the for the beginning of sin. of this world.' ( John 14 : 3o.) But least of them, is wrong, and brings "Speaking of the devil, under the he is a limited monarch, for God will death. Sin is sin ; so bad and hateful in figure of 'prince of Tyrus," God says let him go only so far. Read the first God's sight that He will not tolerate it. to him, 'Thou wast perfect in thy ways chapter of the book of Job, and get an I'm glad there is no guesswork about from the day that thou wast created, insight as to how Satan works. Scores it, aren't you ?" till iniquity was found in thee.' As of texts might be read that prove him "Yes, because if I lose out finally, you have time, read Ezekiel 28: 12-19 to be a very real being to all the Bible I'll know why, anyway." and Isaiah z4: 12-17. There you will writers. How would the great scheme see that the devil was once an angel, a of wickedness, 'the mystery of iniquity' very high angel, in heaven. But he as one writer calls it, be carried on IT is not the rare gifts, the posses- didn't abide in the truth, and iniquity through the centuries if there were not sions of the few; it is not great wealth, was found in him. So he was cast out a master mind back of it that does not great learning, great genius, or great of heaven, as you may read in the die with each generation of men? Any power ; it is not these things that make twelfth chapter of Revelation; and one who observes, can see that there is their possessors happy. It is health, now he is on the earth, tempting men something more than human working it is friendship, it is love at home; it to sin." in the world, as in Spiritism, and we is the voices of children; it is sunshine. "But what was that first sin he com- may be sure, by its fruits, that God is It is the blessings that are commonest, mitted ?" not in it." not those that are rarest; it is the gifts "It was pride. 'Thine heart was "Well now, Pastor, is a man natu- that God has scattered everywhere.— lifted up because of thy beauty,' and rally sinful ?" G. H. Morrison. Page Six When God Is in the Home mosphere pervades the home, and the lives Children Need a Lot of Loving of the children are guided, nourished, and COME years ago, a Chicago paper told evidently ripening into a rich fruitage."— HY don't you go up to bed with me?" simply of an overheard conversation be- John T. Faris. objected the nine-year-old boy. "You tween two boys in that city. go up with Kenneth every night." "It was quite early in the day, and the 2111111,1111111 1 1111111111311.11111111111111111111111,111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,11111111111111,4111111111111111111111111 "But he is younger and goes to bed family had not yet breakfasted, when a little earlier," the mother explained ; "you are a Jewish boy from across the street came into big boy now." the yard, and beckoned through the window family Altar "That doesn't make any difference," urged for the six-year-old son to come out and the oldest boy; "I like to be tucked in just play. The boy answered, 'I can't come now, OUR CHILDREN the same." for we have not had breakfast nor prayers.' Jesus called the little ones to His side and After that, the mother saw to it that the `Prayers, what's that?' the little Jewish boy blessed them, saying: "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not: for biggest boy got a bedtime hug and a few asked. 'Why, that's talking to God, and my of such is the kingdom of heaven." minutes' quiet talk with her, and was more daddy knows how to do it too,' was the son's particular to show him affection. As in the Master's spirit you take into answer." From the little toddler to the overgrown, . in just such a your arms the little ones, His own ever- Another son, brought up lasting arms will encircle them and you. awkward school child, most children are home; sent a letter to his parents on their . . . His blessing will breathe upon you.— hungry for affection. Our children know golden wedding anniversary. This is part James Hamilton. that we love them, but they like to hear us of what he said: Never despair of a child. The one you say so. They know we think more of them "As I begin to write, there come floating weep the most for at the mercy seat may than of anything else in the world ; but they through my brain a host of texts from that fill your heart with the sweetest joys.— want us to show it. Few children want a Theodore Cuyler. Volume which, thanks to your training, has sentimental, gushing sort of love ; but they become the best-loved and most-studied of WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING? need and appreciate constant, unobtrusive all books. I remember with gratitude how evidences of our affection. I used to sit beside mother in my eighth Lives of boys and girls remind us Of the paths our feet have trod; Love can often cure an irritable temper. year, reading the Bible, and asking her ques- As they follow on behind us, and soothe delicate nerves. One mother tions about its meaning ; and how during Do we lead them up to God? had this experience, and said, "When my that year I finished reading the Good Book little girl's face grew flushed and her voice through. Thus 'from a child' I have 'known It's the footprints we are making As we walk the sands of time • rose high and sharp, I stopped my work, put the Scriptures,' because you taught your That the noble youth are taking— my arm around her, and talked in a low. children to obey the command and 'read the Do they lead to heights sublime? tender•tone about her games and dolls. I Scriptures.' And not merely did you teach • Do they lead to prayer and worship could feel the little form relax and see the us to read the Bible, and explain to us its And a place within God's shrine? tense, vivid face grow calm and happy as meaning, but your lives in general, as seen Will some boy go right who follows she felt my love flowing out to her." by us, and your conduct toward us in par- In these tracks of yours and mine? "I like to visit her," laughed one friend ticular, have given object lessons, enabling —A. J. S. to another as she- entered the cheery home, us to understand more deeply and appreciate tittle children sometimes give their mother "because some one is always loving some more fully than many can the meaning of the headache; but if she lets them have one else." not a few texts of Scripture. . . . their own way, when they grow up to be big 'children, they will give her the heart- We are so busy and try so hard to be "The happy home in which we all lived to- ache. Foolish fondness spoils many, and efficient and successful that sometimes we gether and the happy home where we still letting faults alone spoils more. Gardens forget that— delight to meet are beautiful types of the that are never weeded will grow very little worth gathering; all watering and no hoeing, Father's house in which we all hope to will make a bad crop.—Spurgeon. "Folks need a lot of loving every minute. dwell." The sympathy of others and their smile. The life of John G. Paton tells of a Many a child goes astray, not because there Till life's end from the moment they humble home in Scotland where both father is a want of virtue at home, but simply be- begin it, • and mother' believed the promise, "Ask, and cause home lacks sunshine. A child needs Folks need a lot of loving all the while." smiles as much as flowers need sunbeams. it shall be given you." In the home were Children look little beyond the present A rosy-cheeked, curly-haired little girl only three rooms, one being the workshop. moment. If a thing pleases, they are likely came dancing into the room where her In one of the two rooms remaining, the to seek it; if it displeases, they are inclined to avoid it. If home is the place where mother was working and, throwing her arms family gathered for prayer twice daily. Be- faces are sour, and words harsh, and fault- around her mother, said: "Oh, muvver, I tween the rooms was a very small apart- finding is ever in the ascendant, they will love you so much I don't know what to do!" ment, which was known as the sanctuary of spend as many hours as possible elsewhere. The mother returned the caresses and that home, the place for secret prayer. One And this is just what too many children are doing to-day. Here cheerfulness pays great smiled. "That is just the way I feel about of the family wrote, "Thither daily, . . . dividends. Blessed are the parents who you too, dear. What happy times we shall generally after each meal, we saw our make home the happiest place in the world. always have together !" father retire, and shut the door; and we And blessed are the children who live with children got to understand by a sort of them. E. L. The. mother was laying a foundation for spiritual instinct (for the thing was too the confidences and trust of future years sacred to be talked about) that prayers were when she would wish to keep ever near her being poured out there for us." daughter's heart and guide her life. Children grow up so quickly. Plump Who could ask for better testimony as to little legs run away in long trousers; little the value of religion in the home? It is pink feet fit happily into wedding slippers ; impossible to teach the children of the home and then we wish we had taken more time the commandments of God as this should for just loving. As they grow older, a re- be done unless the Bible is read daily in serve comes to children as their armor their hearing by a parent who is showing against the careless world; but this will by his life that he is a follower of God. The gladly' be laid aside when alone with the father in one home where parents and chil- mother who has done a lot of loving. dren gather daily at the family altar says : MRS. LYDIA L. ROBERTS, "A cheerful, happy, natural religious at- 111111111111111111L1111111 /.111,111111/111i1111111111,111,.,111,.....11111111111.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111,6111111F National Kindergarten Association.

Page Seven WILL not leave you, orphans : I will come' to you." John 14: 18, J margin. For three and a half years, Christ had been with His disci- ° pies as a helper, teacher, and guardian. Now He was to leave them, yet not bereaved ; for He promised to provide another to take His place and ever to remain with them. Again He gave the assurance : "I tell you the truth : .It is expedient for you that I go away : for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you ; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you." John 16 : 7. One Comforter ascended; the 'other Com- forter descended. Jesus went to be with His Father on the throne ; the Holy Spirit came to abide with the church on the earth. The Greek word paraclete, which in the above text is translated "Com- forter," occurs five times in the New Testament. Four times does the Sav- iour use it in the discourse to the dis- ciples on the eve of the crucifixion ( John 14 : 16, 26 ; 15 : 26 ; 16 : 7) ; and once the apostle John employs it in his reference to Christ as our "advo- cate [paraclete] with 'the Father." 1 John 2:I. A few moments' study of this origi- nal term is an aid to understanding the position and work of the Holy Spirit. "Paraclete is composed of two words,—clete, which means 'called,' and Para, which mean's 'along with.' It thus means exactly, 'one who is called along with another,' or 'one who is called to another's aid.' More defi- nitely, the paraclete is one who is called along with the clete to aid him. And to understand the work of the paraclete, we need to understand the position of the clete. The PARAC "A man is called to appear before a court of justice to answer a charge made against him. He is clete, or `called.' But he is ignorant of the law, and unable to plead well before his ROY F. COTTREL judges ; therefore another is called to help him. There is no charge against this other ; but he knows the law, and he is able to state the case well ; there- fore he is 'called to help' the former ; he is para-clete. In this case, the word `ad-vocate' corresponds both in ety- pleasure, or the subtle suggestions of seated upon the throne at Jerusalem, mology and in meaning with the Greek skepticism ; every one has his peculiar the Spirit of the Lord was everywhere word, and expresses the function temptations and besetting sins. To present. (Psalm 139: 7-ii.) This which the paraclete is expected to per- meet and defeat these conquering heavenly Representative dictated the form. forces of evil, God commissioned His wonderful message of John the Bap- Holy Spirit as man's helper or com- "Or again, a man is called on to do tist (Luke I: 13-15), overshadowed forter. a certain piece of work required of the Virgin Mary (verse 35), anointed him ; he is clete. He finds that it is Earnestly and long did the Spirit the Master for His divine ministry utterly beyond his power to do it alone : plead with the ambitious antediluvians and sacrifice (Acts io :'38), produced so another of greater strength 'is to turn from apostasy. (Genesis 6: 3.) the miracle of Pentecost (Acts 2: 4), called to aid' him in that work; he is When Israel journeyed from Egypt to and guided the apostles in their heroic his Para-clete."—"The Holy Spirit the Canaan, God gave His "good Spirit to labors for the spiritual conquest of a Paraclete," pages 6, 7. instruct" and lead them. (Nehemiah world (Acts 4 : 31 ; 8 : 29). And, to- 9 : 20.) The Spirit wrought mightily day, when oftentimes "we know not BEWITCHING INFLUENCE through Elijah ; and Elisha prayed that what we should pray for as we ought: Since the disobedience and fall of he too might be clothed with "a double . . . the Spirit itself maketh interces- our first parents, a strange, bewitching portion." (2 Kings 2: 9.) David sion for us with groanings which can influence has been abroad in the world found that, whether he was with his not be uttered." Romans 8: 26. to seduce and destroy. It may be the flocks in the wilderness or confronted' The self-same Spirit directed in the infatuation of business, or the lure of by the formidable Goliath, whether he authorship and preparation of the money, or the inordinate desire for was a fugitive in a mountain cave or greatest volume ever published. Coy- Page Eight garding the nature of the Holy Spirit The Spirit comes as a free gift,— and His relationship to the other mem- absolutely free for the asking,—yet bers of the Trinity, we are not only upon specified conditions. First, especially concerned. The statement He will not share the throne of the of the Word, explicitly mentioning the heart with another. As one writer ex- Father, Son, and Holy. Spirit, is suffi- presses it, "Christ, through the Spirit, cient. Christ likens the Spirit to the will be Lord of all, or He will not be wind. A chemical analysis of the Lord at all." wind, or atmosphere, may be interest- Would you be filled with the Spirit? ing, but it is far more important to Sincere, earnest prayer is an indispen- know how to relate ourselves to it, and sable preparation. When Christ was how it may be employed as our helper. baptized in the river Jordan by John Certain attributes of the Spirit un- the Baptist, the Son of God prayed; doubtedly belong to the mystery of then came the opening heavens, the godliness ; and instead of presumptu- descent of the Spirit, and the voice of ously exploring the forbidden, it were approval. infinitely better to build upon the sure promises; instead of trying to dissect NOT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN and analyze the Holy Spirit, we would He who would welcome this exalted better seek His fellowship, comfort, Guest into his • heart and home must and guidance. dwell in unity and peace with God's With sanctimonious voice, a person children (Ephesians 4: 3), must be guided by pure motives ( James 4 : 3), AVE you ever feared once said to me : "I am taught by the H Spirit, and do not require that any book must honor the royal law and abhor that you have committed or person should instruct me." In the sin (Romans 12 : 9), must obey, trust, the unpardonable sin? very nature of the case, this person was and grasp by faith "the promise of the either self-deceived or a deceiver. Spirit" (Acts 5 : 32 ; Galatians 3 : 13, That very fear is evi- Were he truly a disciple of the Spirit, 14). Having complied with all the dence that you have not he would esteem and magnify the conditions laid down in the Word, he may confidently pray for the Spirit; passed beyond the bounds Book that was given through the Spirit. God never contradicts Him- and believing that he has the promised of God's mercy, and that. self, and His true child never belittles blessing, accept it with thanksgiving. the Spirit still yearns for or discards the treasures of knowledge Then will the fruits of the Spirit— communicated through "the eternal "love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gen- the prodigal's return. Spirit" to His other children. tleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance"—be manifest in the life. BRINGS JESUS TO EACH ONE "Grieve not the Holy Spirit," pleads Returning to Christ's promise of the the apostle Paul. (Ephesians 4 : 3o.) Paraclete: Since the Holy Spirit had Have you ever feared that you have ever been in the world to strive with committed the unpardonable sin ? That man, what are we to understand by the very fear is evidence that you have not words, "If I depart, I will send Him passed beyond the bounds of God's unto you" ? John 16 : 7. This need mercy, and that the Spirit still yearns trouble no one. While the Saviour for the prodigal's return. No one act, walked with His disciples, they had de- however heinous, can forever close the ETE pended upon Him and desired no other door of pardon. But if we trifle with helper ; but when deprived of His pres- our pet sins to-day, it is easy to yield to ence, they would sense their need, and other temptations to-morrow. We con- the Comforter would be sent in answer tinue to wander and to stifle the per- to their prayers. suasive voice that speaks, until the "Cumbered with humanity, Christ conscience becomes seared as with a could not be in every place personally. hot iron. Then do we become insensi- Therefore it was for their interest that ble to the only influence in the universe He should go to the Father, and send that can save men. Here is our only the Spirit to be His successor on earth. safety—"see that ye refuse not Him No one could then have any advantage that speaketh." Hebrews 12: 25. ering a period of fifteen hundred because of his location or his personal Again we are bidden, "Quench not years, about forty men, of almost every contact with Christ. By the Spirit the the Spirit." 1 Thessalonians 5 : 19. rank, occupation, and class of society, Saviour would be accessible to all. In This is frequently done when we fail participated in writing a book without this sense He would be nearer to them to appropriate the help so generously contradictory views or discordant than if He had not ascended on provided. Yet none are to expect this theories,—a book that tells one gospel high. . . . gift of gifts for personal satisfaction story throughout, presents one eternal MUST BE LORD OF ALL or self-aggrandizement. "We can not law; specifies one remedy for sin, and "At all times and in all places, in all use the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is to exalts o n e divine-humah Saviour. sorrows and in all afflictions, when the use us." Our Father anoints us, not Whence came this ancient scroll that outlook seems dark and the future per- that we may feel happy and elated, but to-day speaks in eight hundred tongues plexing, and we feel helpless and that we may serve others. and employs a larger army in its pub- alone, the • Comforter will be sent in "Only to those who wait humbly lication and circulation than any other answer to the prayer of faith. tir- upon God, who watch for His guidance book ever produced ?—Here is the cumstances may separate us from and grace, is the Spirit given. The answer : "All Scripure is given by in- every earthly friend ; but no circum- power of God awaits their demand and spiration of God." 2 Timothy 3: 16. stance, no distance, can separate us reception. This promised blessing, "The prophecy came not in old time by from the heavenly Comforter. Wher- claimed by faith, brings all other bless- the will of man : but holy men of God ever we are, wherever we may go, He ings in its train. It is given according spake as they were moved by the Holy is always at our right hand to support, to the riches of the grace of Christ, and Ghost." 2 Peter I : 21. sustain, uphold, and cheer."—"The He is ready to supply every soul ac- With deep theological questions re- Desire of Ages," pages 669, 670. cording to the capacity to receive." Page Nine ES AMERICA'S PROPHETIC WEEKLY

Edited by Asa Oscar Tait, Alonzo L. Baker, Francis D. Nichol

THE BATTLE FOR THE Now regardless of what men may "science, history, and the development of BIBLE think, suppose we do a little analyzing of literature" that stand opposed to the the foregoing in the light of what the clear statements of the Word of God, are rr HE militant moderator of the Pres- Scriptures really say: spurious fabrications. There is an abun- byterian Church, Dr. Clarence Ed- dance of true, Christian experience, and ward Macartney, receives his full share i. As to the question of Jesus' raising the world is filled with true science, true of discussion and criticism these days, Lazarus from the dead. The whole of history, and true literature, that show because of his strong stand that the Bible the eleventh chapter of John, and part of beyond the possible peradventure that is the very word of the living God. the twelfth, are given up to the story of God's Word is as it claims to be,—the It is hard to get used to the fact that Lazarus. 14 any one will take the pains veritable Word of the Most High Him- religious papers, and professed ministers to read this story, he can not fail to be self. of the gospel from their pulpits, are the impressed with the thought that the The apostle Paul, as he affirms, gave ones who offer the greatest criticism of apostle John is endeavoring to tell the up everything in order that he "may Dr. Macartney's work. simple narrative of just what Jesus did. know Him, and the power of His resur- The doctor recently gave an address to He tells us about Lazarus being sick. rection, and the fellowship of His suf- the theological students at Princeton on He tells us something about his sisters. ferings." Philippians 3: to.. And who- the subject of faith, and a leading reli- He tells about Jesus speaking to the ever will take the pains to throw his gious weekly says that he "lamented" the disciples concerning the sickness of speculations to the wind and receive into "tendency to minimize the miraculous Lazarus. Then it says that He still abode and the supernatural." And continuing, two days where He was after He had his heart, in deed and in truth, the living Word of the living God, will know in this paper adds : told them that Lazarus was sick. A himself this mighty power of the resur- "The whole address carried the impli- little later, He proposed to go back to the cation that the man who had faith was home of Lazarus, because, as He told rection ; and he will know by an ever- one who believed in a great many things them, "Lazarus is dead." expanding and living experience that which were contrary to his experience Then follows the story of the return Jesus of Nazareth has power to raise the and to the evidence which we have of of Jesus and His disciples to Bethany, dead. He will know, from the fact in God's ways, as revealed in science, his- and their meeting with the sorrowing his own life, that Jesus did indeed say, tory, and the development of literature." sisters ; how they directed Jesus to the "Lazarus, come forth," and that Lazarus And the question is asked as to some grave where Lazarus had been laid to obeyed the command. And he will not of the specific things that Dr. Macartney rest. The touching incident is mentioned only know that Lazarus came forth, but would "want us to believe in." The an- that, when the grave was reached, "Jesus he will also understand the resurrection swer is given that he would have us be- wept." Then comes the command from of the Christ Himself, and have no doubt lieve such things as, "that Jesus raised the Christ to take away the stone from concerning that supreme event. And in Lazarus. That God made the world in the door of the sepulcher. His prayer to like manner he will also know, regardless six days of twenty-four hours. That the Father is recorded; and, finally, the of that editor's contrary suggestion, "that Christ's physical body rose from the supreme climax is reached when the God made the world in six days of grave." Lord "cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, twenty-four hours." And the reason And then we would like to have the come forth." The statement is definitely why he knows this great fact of creation reader carefully note how the editor of made that "he that was dead came forth, is because God's own Book says, "In six this particular religious journal ex- bound hand and foot with graveclothes." days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the presses, in the paragraph that follows, The opening verse of the twelfth chapter sea, and all that in them is, and rested his own conviction. speaks again of the raising of Lazarus the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah "But what did Jesus ask us to believe from the dead. The ninth verse also re- blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed in? He counseled us to have perfect iterates the same statement. it." Exodus zo: confidence in the care of God. He bade Now let it be asked in all candor, If Deny the Bible if you will; fight its us make peace with our enemies. He we can not take at full face value a plain truth if you must; but in the name believed that goodness had greater straightforward story like this in the of, High Heaven do not capture the re- power than evil. As we gather from inspired Word,,what is the Book worth? ligious press or the pulpit as a forum John, faith consists in doing the work of And let it be affirmed with all sincerity from which • to announce that God's Jesus. Faith in Lazarus' resurrection or and earnestness that the individual who Word can be robbed of its mighty mira- in Jesus' walking on the water or in His doubts the narrative 'that Jesus raised cles. The soul that has had his own life physical resurrection will never produce Lazarus from the dead is a doubter of touched by the blood of Jesus and felt that kingdom of God which is within a the inspired Book. He may deliver the transforming power that streams man. The faith that Jesus taught, will. whole volumes of platitudes about faith's from Calvary, knows definitely and ir- The faith which recognizes all truth as consisting "in doing the work of Jesus" refutably that He who has power to re- God's truth ; the faith which learns God's and "the faith which recognizes all truth create in conversion also has power to ways of doing things and leads one to as. God's truth"; but nevertheless, how- create a world in six days. live in conformity with those ways; the ever much he may be,self-deceived, he is The individual who is absorbing the faith which makes a man ready tc, do his covering up his infidelity with his own foolish theories of so-called Modernism tap-notch best, taking all the light he had, words. For if he would but analyze is building his house upon the sand, and and then go on, unconcerned, though the what he is saying, he would readily see it will surely be swept away; but he who heavens fall, this sort of faith gives a how clearly he contradicts himself. stands foursquare on the living Word of man strength of God in his life; it wins If God's Word is, not taken at full face the Living God is building upon the eter- the victory." value, it is not taken at all. And the nal Rock of Ages. T.

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This is the second of a series of articles by R. MANNING CLARKE, M. D., on COLON HYGIENE

N the previous article, "The Gar- flammation, with impairment of' the bage Can," explanation was made function of these highly specialized I- regarding the delicate nature of The cells that comprise, the lining of the the cells lining the colon and the high bowel. degree of their special ability to reject It is possible to wash the hands in the poisonous material necessarily water until the skin becomes cracked handled by the colon. We now come and bleeds from the irritation thus to a discussion of some of the things enema caused. The skin is also highly spe- that injure these delicate cells and im- cialized ; but its specialty is to make it pair their ability to carry on their able to stand just such treatment as highly specialized selective action. washing and bathing. If the skin has If a bowel movement does not arrive trouble in standing such treatment, exactly when we think it should, a in proper condition. The eye has a how can the delicate mucous mem- cathartic or an enema is the usual re- special gland over it that constantly brane lining the bowel be expected to sort. Now, an occasional cathartic or secretes a fluid (tears), to wash over stand it ? Certainly it can not. an enema is not especially harmful ; the eye and assist in keeping it in con- The enema habit is harmful, and is it is the habitual use of them that gets dition. This fluid is prepared by na- one of the causes of colitis (inflamma- us into trouble. There are thousands ture to be of great assistance to the tion of the large bowel). The habitual of people who daily flush the colon, or tissues of the eyeball. The joints have use of enemas increases nervousness, large bowel, with large enemas of all the same protection, being filled with insomnia, and irritability. It can kinds. In fact, there are very few a fluid that has the special property of make the bowel so irritable that it re- liquid substances that are not used and keeping the joint surfaces free from in- flexly causes many symptoms through- counted as cure-alls for troubles. Some flammation and in condition. Other out the body, such as dizziness, nausea, of the more commonly used are plain examples of these protecting fluids are backache, distress in the abdomen after water, soapsuds, molasses, honey, found in the pleural cavity, in the peri- eating, loss of appetite, gas, and pass- Epsom salts solution, turpentine, but- cardium surrounding the heart, etc. ing of mucus with the bowel move- termilk. It certainly does not take a Now the bowel is cared for in the ment. large amount of scientific ability to same way. The intestinal juice is a If you are addicted to this enema understand how the habitual use of secretion especially prepared and pe- habit, better learn how to get good such flushings will harm the bowel. culiarly adapted to keeping in perfect bowel movements by natural means, Wherever in nature there is found condition the delicate cells lining the and discontinue this irritating practice a delicate tissue or membrane, there colon. It is not possible to constantly that is so harmful to the "human also will be found a special fluid to wash away this intestinal juice with garbage can," as explained in the pre- bathe it, protect it, and help to keep it enemas without causing injury and in- ceding article.

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. Page Eleven WAITING FOR HIS COMING can be imagined. How strong it is, Him, to be with Him ! What comple- (Continued from page 2) how pressing, how abiding ! tion of happiness ! Truly, in His soul is stirred to more earnest prayer, Lastly, it leads to earnest watchful- presence is fullness of joy; at His right and is ,led to a close communion with ness. Believing that our Lord is at hand are pleasures forevermore. God. hand, there can be no thought of slum- Greater than the great ones of earth is It gives consolation and comfort in ber or inattention. The thoughtful He. And He bids me welcome ! He trouble. Some one dearly loved has and considerate follower of Christ, smiles upon me! He showers me with been taken away, some one who was having the sure word of prophecy His favors ! the light of our eyes. We are left to whereunto he takes heed, walks cir- And the meeting of long-separated lament our bereavement in loneliness cumspectly. His mind is dwelling on friends ! How the heart leaps for- and darkness. But light breaks in on the Lord's coming in glory, the resur- ward to that meeting, when our loved our desolation : rection of the righteous dead, the ones will be clasped in our arms again ! "This we declare to you on the glorification of the saints, . the dismay "Our God shall come, and shall not Lord's own authority—that we who of the backslidden church, the tre- keep silence." And one thing He says, are alive and continue on earth until mendous overthrow of the ungodly is this : "Gather My saints together the coming of the Lord, shall certainly world. To him these are daily and unto Me." And then shall He send not forestall those who shall have familiar thoughts, filling his imagina- His angels, and shall gather together previously passed away. For the Lord His elect from the four winds, from Himself will come down from heaven the uttermost part of the earth to the with a loud word of command, and uttermost part of heaven. with an archangel's voice and the How many sad partings this world trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ has witnessed ! Cruel, indeed, is the will rise first. Afterwards we who are separation of death ; terrible is the alive and are still on earth will be havoc it has wrought. Families have caught up in their company amid', been divided, friends have been sun- clouds to meet the Lord in the air. dered, lovers have been torn apart. And so we shall be with the Lord for- How precious, then, is the promise of ever. Therefore encourage one an- God, "I will bring thy seed from the other with these words." I Thessa- east, and gather thee from the west ; lonians 4: 15-18, "The New Testament I will say to the north, Give up ; and to in Modern Speech," by Weymouth. the south, Keep not back: bring My And, oh, blessed thought, His com- sons from far, and My daughters from ing is near ! Soon we shall be restored the ends of the earth ; even every one to the society of those we have loved. that is called by My name." Isaiah Soon we shall see—and recognize— 43 : 5-7. "And they shall come from the saints of earth arising from their the east, and from the west, and from graves. And then, with unutterable the north, and from the south, and surprise and profound joy, we."will be shall sit down in the kingdom of God." caught up in their company amid Luke 13 : 29. clouds to meet the Lord in the air." Underwood THAT MORN OF MORNS Here, indeed, is strong consolation. As an example of devotion to a cause And so we look forward to that The near prospect of glory cheers the and a profession, there is perhaps no morn of morns, when once .again the more inspiring example than that af- Lord Jesus will visit the earth. We heart, depressed with trouble and forded by Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, gloom as it may have been. The dark- whose life is devoted to the development strain to catch the first sound of His ness of the present is dissipated by the of the X ray, one of the greatest helps voice, that voice which will reverberate in modern medical science. Because of bright realities of the future. . Do injuries received in his studies and when from hillside and mountain top; echo floods of tribulation overwhelm you ? making experiments, Dr. Baetjer has re- through the silent valleys; sweep cently lost his eighth finger in the sev- Does the fear of death lay hold of you ? enty-first surgical operation he has un- across the wide and trackless plains; Do the sorrows of this vale of tears dergone. This leaves him but one finger and pierce even to the remote caves of and a thumb. Nevertheless, he goes on encompass you ? Is the hour of dark- ardently with his work. old ocean. We wait to hear th4t voice, ness with you? Do the workings of as it rolls through the earth, strike the the tempter make you afraid? "Be- shackles from grim death, break open hold, thy salvation cometh." Lift up the tombs of the saints, and pierce even your head, for your redemption is to their dead ears. We yearn to behold drawing near. T h e Lord, your tion and deeply affecting his heart. the sleeping ones, awakened by that strength and deliverer, is at hand, Therefore, he is watchful. Satan and commanding voice, feeling the thrill of "even at the doors." Then brood no the world, he keeps at bay. The de- life once more, raise their heads from sires of the flesh and of the mind, he more over the sorrows of this life. their moldy pillows, rise from the cold Brightness is about to shine all about successfully combats in the strength of and chilling turf with a shout of rap- your pathway. Your sorrow is about His Lord. Continually thrilling in his ture, toss aside the coverlid of dust, to be turned into joy. And you shall ears and echoing in his heart is the and spring joyfully into glorious life "rejoice in hope of the glory of God." word, "The Lord is at hand." So he again. A vast congregation they make It provides the greatest of all incen- is sober, alert, watching unto prayer, as they gather to greet their Redeemer, his loins girt, his light burning, even as tives to Christian work and service. In coming from the east and west, north proportion as we believe that the com- a man who waits and watches for his and south, from height and depth, ing of the Lord dfaws near, every Lord. from land and sea, from torrid and nerve will be strained, every energy 0 BLESSED DAY! frigid zones, to answer the call of the put forth, every moment employed, 0 blessed day ! 0 matchless Christ ! Master. They come in tremendous every talent turned to the best ad- What happiness of heart to be near troops, guided by angels, and, sweep- vantage. An intense anxiety in regard Thee! What fullness of rapture! ing upward together, take their stand to the souls of others will be aroused. How exceeding abundantly above all on the glorious sea of glass before the Missions, both at home and abroad, that we asked or thought ! great white throne of God. will be advocated and supported that To be with Jesus ! Oh, soul-stirring And then, after a time, they come men may be saved from' impending thought ! To be hear His person, and back to this earth, which has been made judgments and that we may finish enjoy His society! The glorious new and clean and sweet. And on this God's work, and the end may come. Christ, the Holy One of Israel, the regenerated earth, with the curse re- No more powerful motive for service eternal Son of God—to look upon moved, and under those new heavens,

Page Twelve clear and bright, all the righteous, with their blessed King and Redeemer, will make their eternal home. Far out over the plains of the new earth will flash wave after wave of glory. Fulfilled is the oath of God, "As I live, saith the Lord, all the•earth shall be filled with My glory." No freezing cold. No burning heat. No gloomy clouds. No darkness of night. No wasting sickness. No cruel pain. No tears, No death. No graveyards. No temptations. No sin. No part- ings. Only waving of palms. Only victory. Only praise, rest and glory, now and evermore, world without end. THE COMING OF HIS FEET "In the crimson of the morning, in the whiteness of the noon, In the amber glory of the day's retreat, In the midnight, robed in darkness, or the gleaming of the moon, ROM the beginning of the history of sin, cause "He ever liveth." Blessed power of I listen for the coming of His feet. E the priest,—he who had access to the an endless life so freely given to anyone throne of God,—has played an• important who will accept it! hear His weary footsteps on the sands of part in working out the plan of salvation. No longer do we approach our heavenly Galilee, Of earthly priesthoods there have been at Father through the medium of the blood of On the temple's marble pavement, on the least three. The Melchisedic, that form of bulls and of goats, shed by our own hands, street, priesthood in which God selected individuals but by "a new and living way," which has • Worn with weight of sorrow, faltering up the slopes of Calvary, without regard to their line of descent, and been consecrated for us. (Hebrews so: 2o.) The sorrow of the coming of His feet. appointed them priests; for example, "Mel- That this new and living way may avail for chisedec, king of Salem" a territory of the us, we must hold fast our profession of "Down the minster aisles of splendor, from Jebusites. (Hebrews 7.) Only one person faith. betwixt the cherubim, from the human family is so mentioned: How shall we stand in the great judg- Through the wondering throng, with The next mention of 'a priest of this order ment day? No question that comes to our motion strong and fleet, is the reference made to Christ, our High hearts is of greater importance. In the Sounds His victor tread, approaching with with a music far and dim— Priest, who, as the Son of God, appears as courts of heaven, no one will stand who has The music of the coming of His feet. our advocate in the courts of heaven. Then not placed his case in the hands of the only there was the custom of having the eldest advocate humanity has there. This Advo- "Sandaled not with sheen of silver, girded son of a family or clan serve as priest for cate appears for us without price. The not with woven gold, that clan. motive is love, divine love; but He can not Weighted not with shimmering gems and When God called His people from Egypt, be unjust, nor can He plead our case unless odors sweet, He instituted the Levitical order of priest- we desire Him to do so. The most blessed But white winged and shod with glory is hood, which was to be the form maintained thing about it all is that He is both Advo- the Taberlight of old— The glory of the coming of His feet. until Christ, a high priest of a more perfect cate and Judge; for to Him the Father has tabernacle and service, should come. All committed all judgment. The reason for "He is coming, 0 my spirit! with His ever- forms of earthly priesthood have given place this, as stated in the scripture, is that He lasting peace, to the real priesthood, the service of which has been through all the experiences that With His blessedness immortal and has been transferred to the real tabernacle, have come to humanity. He knows just complete, the tabernacle not made. with hands ; and how it feels to have Satan trip up our feet. He is coming, 0 my spirit! and His coming the service, no longer a type or shadow, is He knows just how it feels to be weary in brings release, in reality cleansing men from sin. The book the flesh, and then to meet the tempter. He I listen for the coming of His feet." of Hebrews abounds in references to this knows also just how victory is gained. • Priest, the tabernacle, and the service. There is only one way to be victorious over NOT PHILOSOPHY, BUT LIFE Our High Priest has had an experience in Satan, and that is to be submissive to God. CHRISTIANITY is not a philosophy, meeting the trials of His subjects, for He As Advocate and Judge, He offers to but a life. It is a union of the divine "was in all points tempted like as we are," write His new covenant on our hearts. "I yet He met these temptations without sin- will put My laws into their hearts, and in with the human, for the purpose of ning. (Hebrews 4: 1 their minds will I write them; and their overcoming sin in the flesh. "I am 5-) "Christ being come an high priest of good sins and iniquities will I remember no crucified with Christ," says the apostle, things to come," officiates in this more per- more." Hebrews so: 16, 17. Blessed `nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but manent tabernacle. Here He offers His change, so God can work in us "both to will Christ liveth in me: and the life which own blood—his life, and through this offer- and to do of His good pleasure." I now live in the flesh I live by the ing, has "obtained eternal redemption for Then, all things are new and of God. His faith of the Son of God, who loved me, us." Through this ministration as mediator Spirit, which has a place in our lives, di- and gave Himself for me." Galatians of the new testament, He has willed to rects our daily course so that all things 2 : 20. Anything short of this, falls supply His own life in the place of our lives are of God. Wonderful transformation! that far short of Christian privileges. and to give to us the full benefit of this Christ's life substituted for our lives! His life just as though we had our own selves, mind is substituted for our minds. There is It is a mistake to think only of Christ aside from His presence and power, been a blending together of our hearts and minds as living and overcoming in human able to overcome the temptations to sin. with His, and His thoughts and aims are flesh nineteen hundred years ago ; He Righteousness is reckoned as ours, counted identical with ours! Our very impulses will still lives and overcomes in. every heart for our own, given by the blessed High then be directed by the Spirit, and, in carry- surrendered to Him. His word to Priest and Elder Brother. ing them out, we shall be obeying Him. every one is : "Behold, I stand at the But this is not all. He becomes "the Glorious morning, when all cases are de- door, and knock: if any man hear My Apostle"—the One sent—of our profession cided ; when to every one is assigned his voice, and open the door, I will come as well. (Hebrews 3: I.) He takes upon character and his place in heaven! Then in to him, and will sup with him, and Himself the responsibility of making our Advocate and Judge lays aside His he with Me. To him that overcometh known to every nation, tongue, and people, work in the heavenly sanctuary, to be ac- the glad tidings of divine grace,—grace to claimed King of kings and Lord of lords by will I grant to sit with Me in My help in every time of need. Faithful unto the assembled multitudes of heaven. Will throne, even as I also overcame, and death, He has been. Now, crowned with your voice and mine join in that glad ac- am set down with My Father in His the life of an overcomer, He is able to claim? Only those who have "clean hands throne." Revelation 3: 20, 21. succor every one who is tempted; yes, He and a pure heart" will join in that wonder- C. P. BOLLMAN. can succor them even to the uttermost, be- ful occasiovi. Page Thirteen evolved from anything or nothing, and Common Sense View of Creation passed through all the stages of ani- mal life (the worm, the snake, and the monkey) in his development? HAROLD E. SANFORD Isn't it much easier to take the Biblical record, God created the heaven N the beginning God created the there are many vital phenomena which and the earth and man ? Is that not heaven and the earth." Gen. I : i. are not now to be explained by what the most logical explanation that can be 1 That is the simple statement that we now know of chemistry. Possibly given for the existence of every living records the greatest piece of work ever this will always be so." thing, and for every non-living particle accomplished. Ten words tell the And yet a man who thus acknowl- on.or in the earth ? story that many a man has tried to ex- edges the existence and creative power plain by writing hundreds of thou- of a God by confessing his ignorance sands of words. of the laws governing the life of the A LIFE OF RESTFULNESS One of the attempts to explain the simplest single-celled animal, will say : story of creation and the events that "The origin of animal life was in the "Thou wilt keep him in perfect have transpired since creation was ocean, and from these marine types peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee : completed, is a history that is adver- it is believed that all other forms of because he trusteth in Thee. Trust ye tised in this way : "IN THE BEGIN- animal life have come, by gradual in the Lord forever: for in the Lord NING." And the beginning for him adaptation to their present mode of Jehovah is everlasting strength." Isa- (the author) is the time of the fire life." iah 26 : 3, 4. mist, ten or a hundred million years If this be true, the birds developed The life in Christ is the life of rest- ago, when the earth first began to as- wings because they had to be able to fulness. Many disturbing, perplexing sume shape. It is affirmed that "from reach the limbs of the trees, to avoid incidents may come into the life of a the empty dawn of things, the solidify- being the prey of other animals which child of God; but in all these he rests, ing of earthy matter, the slime of had not felt the need of wings. It knowing that the divine hand can and primitive ditches; from an antiquity would be just as logical to say that man does deliver. Through nature, by acts reckoned in millions of years, when no could develop wings or fur. If that be of providence, by the Word, and life stirred in the world—from this true, why doesn't the Eskimo develop through the influences of godly asso- misty period behind the curtain of the a fur coat, to protect him from the cold ciates, the Lord sends to the troubled paleozoic age, up to the present time— of the arctic winters ? . heart messages of hope and assurance. Often in the quiet hours of personal such is the scope of this remarkable AN EGG, BUT NO LIFE history." meditation and pondering over events How can a man pretend to write of This same scientist will tell you that hard to understand, he is refreshed by a world before life stirred upon it? the amoeba, one of the simplest ex- a breath of God's own presence, telling Who was there to record the events amples of single-celled animal life, him in certain language that He 18 still that occurred then ? consists of a nucleus "surrounded by with him. protoplasm." "The nucleus usually It is this kind of book that some of In the north of England, men have the college presidents of America are consists of a network Of threads been digging coal for more than a (chromatin) readily stained by certain recommending. One president has century. They have gone miles and dyes. In the meshes of this, a less said that if only one book can be read miles away from the shaft, away out easily stainable material occurs (achro- during the year, that book should be under the sea, and there is danger of matin)." These names may sound this book. This man, then, places that men getting lost in these many sub- history above the Bible in importance ! scientific ; but, in reality, all they mean terranean passageways. is that one part of the nucleus responds THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION readily to a dye, and the other does not. The story is told of two old miners It is not only the historians who are The words are really but a shield for who lost their way. ' Recognizing their promulgating theories concerning the the scientist's ignorance, and serve as a situation, they sat down to rest and to origin of the earth and life. Nearly all means of identifying the two materials. counsel, when suddenly their light the scientists have theories ;- some are The scientist can not tell you what the went out, and they were in danger of extreme, and others sound reasonable nuclear elements are. losing their lives. They feared to and convincing. Most, if not all, of He will also tell you that the nucleus strike a match to rekindle their torch. these theories are evolutionary in char- of the amoeba is surrounded by proto- To wander about blindly, was useless ; acter—they place the beginning of the plasm. He can analyze the proto- so it was suggested : "Let us sit per- earth millions of years in the past, and plasm, and he tells you that it contains fectly quiet, and see if we can not feel they advocate that it started as a small proteins, starches, and sugars, fats, which way the air is moving, because piece of something (they know not enzymes, and pigments (coloring mat- it always moves toward the shaft." what) whirling about in space. Life, ter), together with small amounts of There they sat for a long time, when, they think, started from a tiny speck metallic salts. But yet he can not make all at once, one of them felt a slight that developed faculties of movement, a piece of protoplasm. He may com- touch on his cheek, and he sprang to thought, speech, hearing, and touch as bine the elements, and produce some- his feet, and said, "I felt it!" They its surroundings demanded them. thing that looks like it and has the went in the direction in which the air How much simpler it would be to take came composition, but he can not in any was moving, reached the shaft, and the Biblical account as it stands, in- way make it live. He may make an were saved. stead of spending long years trying to egg that will look and taste like an egg, Just so it is with us. Suddenly, in contradict it. The Bible explains life but he can not make an egg that will the hour of perplexity, when waiting this way : "And God said, Let the earth produce a chicken. There is a bound- is our only safety, there comes a little bring forth the living creature after ary beyond which he can not pass. breath from God that touches the soul. its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and He can not make life. It may seem so gentle and faint that we beast of the earth after its kind : and it Shall we take the word of a man barely recognize it; but if we do, it was so. . . . So God created man in who can not tell what the smallest part must not be disregarded. Let us thank His own Genesis I : 24-27. of the most minute animal is made of, God that He has spoken to us, and Is not thatthat the simplest way to explain and believe him when he says that the praise Him for it ; and whatever may the existence of man or animal? earth evolved from a particle of mud come, let us not go in the opposite di- I have in mind a zoology textbook. or a stone or a piece of star dust? rection. We must giye ourselves up The author, after explaining in detail Shall we believe the scientists, how- to be led by it, and ,we shall come out the life and habits of some of the ever wise and intelligent they may be of darkness, out of boridage, out of smallest animals, says : "It is sure that .about other things, when they say man sorrow, into perpetual light and joy. 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Sin Will Be Stricken OD has pledged His Word to strike G an omnipotent blow at the wicked- ness of this age. "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungod- liness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness." Romans I : i8. Through the destruction of the wickedness of the old world by a flood, and through the destruction of the licentious cities of Sodom and Gomorrah International by fire and brimstone, God has given some most definite warnings as to what The Way to Superstition He will do with the awful wickedness of this time in which we live. We should ffillE grotesque figures above are symbolic of evil spirifs which are supposed to sense these things, and be admonished. have been destroyed by troups in a religious ceremony over in India. The more enlightened people of India, as well as in all other parts of the world, will be amused at such superstition. But do we, who are in the favored lands, take time to con- Will Commerce Stop War? sider as we should that such things as those occurring in India are but the legiti- HE press reports Henry Ford as mate fruitage of driving the knowledge of the true God and of His Word out of the Thaving recently said: "The -public is mind and heart? By turning away from the divine Father, who is the source of all becoming more and more aware that war intelligence, we prepare the way for just such grotesque and fantastic absurdities. is purely a commercial proposition, and God has two great avenues through eventually this knowledge will, be used which He manifests Himself to every in- by private owners of airplanes to prevent dividual on earth. Through His Word, it. Everything that is of use commer- He reveals Himself, giving the great cially is good for defense. Look at the treasure of promise, of precept, of motor car during the last war. I expect prophecy, and of history; but' if we do to spend a lot of time developing a re- not have that Word or refuse to receive liable engine for airplanes." it, still He reveals Himself through na- Just before the great World War of ture. "Because that which is known of 1914-18, the world-renowned educator, God is manifest in them; for God mani- Dr. David Starr Jordan, was telling us fested it unto them. For the invisible in lectures and magazine articles that big things, of Him since the creation of the business would prevent war. But the world are clearly seen, being perceived war showed that he was deceived; and through the things that are made, even the man to-day is deceiving himself His everlasting power and divinity; that Underwood when he believes that greedy, grasping, they may be without excuse." Romans And truly how senseless it is for us to selfish, corrupt, sinful men will not again I : 19, 20. refuse to accept the facts that are so plunge our world into war. The text affirms, then, that we may palpable all about us! perceive,"His everlasting power and di-. vinity" "through the things that are THE steam jutting from the great made." In other words, that which we geyser in Sonoma County, California, is see all about us most clearly betokens an Mighty Serious now being directed into generators for the purpose of developing electricity. intelligent, all-powerful God. There is WISCONSIN Superior Court judge The picture in the center shows the cele- the orderly succession of the seasons; is' reported to have said recently-. A brated naturalist, Luther Burbank, turn- there are the products of the soil, always "The situation is mighty serious when ing the steam into one of these genera- coming from the seed that we sow ; taxis are called to men's rooming houses tors which ran continuously for sixty- there are the infinite number of suns in our University district at 2 o'clock in five days without stopping. Several of shining in space ; there are the move- the morning, and drunken or exhausted the geysers have also been piped to fur- ments of our planets, all going in exact girls, wrapped in blankets, are carried nish heat and hot water, as well as order and precision. These things show out and driven to their homes." steam-generated electricity, for near-by unmistakably the hand of the infinite The situation is indeed serious, and a mountain resorts. The picture below God. It is impossible for the individual mighty warning must be raised concern- shows the steam igmanating from one of not to be impressed by this great array ing it. We are in the days that are ful- these geysers. of facts in nature, regardless of how he filling the prediction of the Master, may consider God's Holy Word. when, just before His coming, conditions But the text continues, "That, know- would be as they were in the days of Lot. ing God, they glorified Him not as God, Read the story of the conditions in neither.gave thanks ; but became vain in Sodom and Gomorrah, where Lot dwelt, their reasonings, and their senseless as recorded in the nineteenth chapter of heart was darkened." Romans I: 21. Genesis. Each individual is forced to admit that The filthy sins of that time called forth he recognizes God. For in the time of the destructive judgments of the Al- great calamity,s he will fall upon his mighty; the sin of this age is rapidly knees and cry out to Him. But even reaching the place where God will en- though he knows God, he may not be dure it no longer, and His judgments, willing to surrender to Him. Then he which are now seen through storm and becomes vain in his reasonings, and his tempest, famine, tornado, and earth- "senseless heart" becomes darkened. quake, in so many parts of the world, will Underwood